Published: October 2025

Keywords:
Susan Swim, Metalogos’ Conference 2025, discussion, Now I See A Person, therapeutic community.

Dr Susan Swim

Susan Swim, PhD, Executive Director Now I See A Person Institute. I have almost four decades of helping to serve the most hopeless of populations, especially those clients and their families who have lost all hope and have not found success in previous therapies, hospitals, medical regimes, or institutionalizations. My passion is to aid our field to see people as people suffering through trauma and not bound to it and that diagnosis and labels are not a person. These are social justice issues. We find with the client being a collaborative partner for change and honored for their resiliency and strengths that up to 98% of our clients (qualitative research) transform along with their families.

swiminc@aol.com

Abstract

The text presents the main points from the discussion that followed Susan Swim's speech to Metalogos’ Conference 2025 called “Back to the Future! “Psychotic” states in Living Systems”, moderated by Anna Emmanouilidou.